Source Image: Tyler, "Sunset Hockey", 2010, 
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Did you know back in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium during the Summer Olympic Games ice hockey made its first debut, and the Canadians took home gold. Don’t remember? Back then, the rules were slightly different. But it’s rather fitting that we won gold, isn’t it? At the time, we were represented by the Winnipeg Falcons. During the quarterfinals, we had gone against Czechoslovakia and won 15 to 0. We then went against the US in the semi-finals, and we won 2 to 0, which probably looks more accurate for a normal current game of hockey. During the gold medal game, we went against Sweden. We won 12 to 1. Now, I don’t know if you were counting, but Canada scored a total of 29 goals! The only one that got anything through our goalie, was Sweden, but only once! Like I said, we won gold. The US won silver and Czechoslovakia won bronze.

Since it was 1920, I didn’t expect there to be very many people playing hockey for the Olympics. Or at least that many teams. But in actuality, there were seven teams. Quarterfinals for the other teams were paired up as Sweden with Belgium with Sweden winning 8 to 0. And then the United States against Switzerland, winning 29 to 0. And then Switzerland ended up in the semi-finals against France, winning 4 to 0.

For the silver medal round, it ended up being the US against Sweden with the US winning 7 to 0. Then the silver medal game was the US against Czechoslovakia with the US actually winning 16 to 0.

For bronze, it ended up being Sweden against Switzerland with Sweden winning 4 to 0 in the semifinals. And then the bronze medal game was Czechoslovakia against Sweden with Czechoslovakia winning 1 to 0.

I still find it funny looking at what all the goals were in the United States making the most at 52 overall goals. However, they still did not win. They only ended up getting in second. Canada only scored 29 goals overall, but they also won all their games. Then you have Sweden, who had a total of 17 goals, won 3 games and lost 3 games and only ended up in fourth. Czechoslovakia ended up only doing one goal to win bronze. They scored one goal over the entire time they played! Just to win bronze!